RelyAbility Blog

This is part one of Project Cinnte (KIN-TEH), an effort to look at some foundational questions in software reliability.

I've been reflecting recently on the journey from infra/SRE to product/service owner, and my lessons - expected and not - along the way.

[Cross-posted to https://www.stanza.systems/post/srecon-americas-2025] Those of us who do booth duty at a conference don’t often get a chance to attend many, if any, sessions.

The AI wave is passing over us: what of genuine value will be left behind?

This is a topic of intermediate complexity in SLOs.

Recently we at Stanza have been exploring operational data, and it's been really exciting to bring techniques and ideas from other domains into our domain - production systems generally, traffic, alerting, cloud costs, etc.

Mental Models of Software My corner of the industry spends a lot of time worrying about effective ways to understand software behaviour, especially in the context of distributed systems.

What is graceful degradation?

Comments/Insights/Contributions from Niall Murphy Toby Burress Štěpán Davidovič Sal Furino (Note that when I say "we" below, I don't specifically intend to speak for these fine people, I'm just using the academic "we".

[Reposted from Medium company blog] Introduction I feel like a little bit of a fraud writing about this, since I only managed to attend KubeCon virtually.

(This is a repost of a document living here, but I am putting it here for backup's sake.

[A repost for reference, since the original was removed as part of house-cleaning elsewhere] I'm solidly in favour of a planning architecture of some kind for any team-size collection of people greater than about 5.

[Note to the reader: chairs have an obvious obligation to remain as neutral as possible, which I take very seriously.

“The waste remains, The waste remains and kills” – Missing Dates, William Empson Economics teaches us that one person’s income is another person’s expenditure.

[This post originally published in USENIX's ;login: magazine, and is based on my keynote at SRECon EMEA 2021.